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Koji Suzuki is a Japanese horror writer, best known for creating the Ring series. He has also written books on fatherhood, manga, and short stories, and received several awards and nominations.
Ring is a 1991 Japanese mystery horror novel by Koji Suzuki, the first in a trilogy. It tells the story of a reporter who investigates a cursed videotape that kills anyone who watches it in seven days.
- Ring
- Spiral
- Loop
- Birthday
- Tide
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This story is set in present-day Tokyo. When four teenagers mysteriously die one night at the same time, Kazuyuki Asakawa, a journalist and uncle to one of the teens, takes a particular interest in the case and investigates. This leads him to a holiday resort called Hakone Pacific Island, where the four teens stayed one week before their death. The...
The events in the story occur a day after Ryuji's death. By chance, Ando Mitsuo, Ryuji's former university classmate, is assigned to do the autopsy of Ryuji. He and his colleague, Miyashita, found a benign tumor in Ryuji's throat which is believed to be the cause of his death. They are puzzled because the tumor that they find resembles a smallpox t...
A medical student named Kaoru Futami has a father who has contracted a deadly disease called Metastatic Human Cancer (MHC), a cancer involving both animals and plants. He discovers that his father was involved in a massive supercomputer project named LOOP. The LOOP was a computer simulation of the emergence of life but that did not succeed. It is k...
This short story collection consists of stories related to the Ring novels. It was also meant to be the conclusion to the Ringseries at the time. Floating Coffin – these are the final moments of Mai Takano's life after disappearing during the events of Spiral. It begins when she watches the tape. She starts ovulating then, and Sadako's DNA is plant...
The sixth and final entry in the series, Tide is linked most directly to Loop. Cram-school math instructor Seiji Kashiwada is a creation of the supercomputer LOOP, and the biological information implanted in him reflects the lives of Ryuji Takayama, who appeared in both Ring and Loop, and Kaoru Futami, who appeared in the latter volume; but due to ...
Ring is a series of six novels by Japanese author Koji Suzuki, featuring a curse involving a videotape and a ghost. The novels have been adapted into films in Japan, South Korea, and the US.
Kōji Suzuki is a Japanese writer who created the Ring series, a horror franchise adapted into manga, films and video games. He also wrote books on fatherhood and won the Japan Fantasy Novel Award.
Aug 11, 2010 · Translation of: Ringu ; first pub. by Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 1991. "A mysterious video has been linked to a number of deaths, and when an inquisitive journalist finds the tape and views it herself, she sets in motion a chain of events that puts her own life in danger"--Container. Access-restricted-item.